20th anniversary of th'immortal Withnail & I


"It's a lesson to all filmmakers everywhere that you don't need a good plot," says Ralph Brown (who plays the inimitable drug dealer Danny) in the 1999 documentary "Withnail & Us," included on both the Criterion Collection DVD and the new British edition. Spot on. Who needs plot with lines like (to take a few at random, out of context) "They're throwing ... themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness. Throw yourself into the road, darling, you haven't got a chance!" and "You've got eels down your leg"?..."